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Fingerprinting Of Job Applicants Skyrockets
November 01, 2012 - The only thing Curtin is guilty of is applying for jobs in fields such as education and health care, which require applicants to be fingerprinted as part of background checks that have become more common and probing in the post-9/11 era. In 2000 about 6.6 million sets of fingerprints were sent to the FBI for vetting, said Chris Brown, an executive with MorphoTrust, which operates 1,200 enrollment centers, including six in metro Orlando, where employers send job applicants for screening. Today the number of prints sent to the FBI is more than 25 million, Brown said. Jason Morris and two partners started EmployeeScreenIQ in 1999 and now serve thousands of large companies (500 workers or more) in the U.S. and abroad. He's...
After Trayvon Martin: Should Neighborhood Watch Groups Require Criminal Background Checks?
November 01, 2012 - Now that the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in February has been charged with second-degree murder, som...
5 States Where ID Theft Is Booming
November 01, 2012 - As people flock to states like Florida and Texas for a warmer climate, someone they would rather not see is following them. Of the top five sta...
Hidden Camera Scandal Blamed on Lack of Employment Screening
November 01, 2012 - After returning from their spring break vacations, students living in the dorms at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga were faced with a sca...
California AB 1844 Prohibits Employers from Demanding Usernames and Passwords from Applicants and Em
November 01, 2012 - In September 2012, California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1844 (AB 1844) to increase privacy protections for social media users in th...
What Is A Government Background Check?
November 01, 2012 - When American citizens choose to work for the federal government in positions that require access to classified information, they are required to u...
Will Private DNA Services Replace State Crime Labs?
November 01, 2012 - A new Cloud-based DNA service could possibly serve as an alternative to state-run crime labs for DNA processing. The advantage of the tec...
Steven Santiago Joins Americheck USA
November 01, 2012 - AmeriCheckUSA announced that Steven Santiago has joined the firm to further develop their growing portfolio of regional and national accounts. ...
Security Flaws in Airline Boarding Passes
November 01, 2012 - Aviation blogger John Butler recently drew attention to a security flaw in the barcodes used on airline boarding passes that would allow terrorists...
Public Records Update by BRB Publications
November 01, 2012 - Two Federal Courts Moving Iowa Both the U.S. District and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts located in Cedar Rapids Iowa are moving into a new court b...
SAM And The Excluded Part List System (EPLS) by BRB Public Records
November 01, 2012 - At the end of July 2012, access to the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) was taken over by a new system. EPLS, along with Federal Agen...
Owe Money In UAE - Go To Jail
October 01, 2012 - A National News Editorial Sometimes, through no fault of their own - perhaps by losing a jo...
Tardy Background Check Leads To Firing of HuffPo Exec
October 01, 2012 - Recently hired Huffington Post Senior Vice President of Sales Moritz Loew was let go after only three months on the job, thanks to a background che...
Warren, Mississippi Court Going Online
October 01, 2012 - The public should be able to access criminal cases in Warren County Circuit Court by December, according the chief justice of the Mississippi Supre...
Case Dismissed Because Of Too Much Evidence
October 01, 2012 - A fugitive doctor charged in the nation's largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there's just too much e...
Johnson County, A Sign Of Prosperity For Record Checks?
October 01, 2012 - As more people file for divorce, struggle to pay bills or commit crimes, local courts are moving slower and taking longer to close cases. With...
Kind Of ID Theft That Works
October 01, 2012 - A 56-year-old man in Salem has stolen Taylor Dark's Social Security number and it seems there's nothing she can do about it. Dark, a 22...
BRB Public Record
October 01, 2012 - Civil Case Limits Raised in 3 Louisiana Counties Through several 2012 legislative acts, three cities have individually increased the upper $$ l...
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